Wednesday Jun 27, 2012

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM BST
Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13.

Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During this time we will share Oracle's strategy and objectives for the upcoming year, and provide an opportunity to learn about the different ways to make money with Oracle through our full stack offering.

Thursday Jun 21, 2012

Omnilogic SRL is a leading technology and information systems provider in Romania and central and Eastern Europe. An Oracle Value-Added Distributor Partner, Omnilogic resells Oracle software, hardware, and engineered systems to Oracle Partner Network members and provides specialized training, support, and testing facilities. Independent software vendors (ISVs) also use Omnilogic’s demonstration and testing facilities to upgrade the performance and efficiency of their solutions and those of their customers by migrating them from competitor technologies to Oracle platforms. Omnilogic also has a dedicated offering for ISV solutions, based on Oracle technology in a hosting service provider model.

Omnilogic wanted to help Oracle Partners and ISVs migrate solutions to Oracle Exadata and sell Oracle Exadata to end-customers. It installed Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Quarter Rack at its data center to create a demonstration and testing environment. Demonstrations proved that Oracle Exadata achieved processing speeds up to 100 times faster than competitor systems, cut typical back-up times from 6 hours to 20 minutes, and stored 10 times more data. Oracle Partners and ISVs learned that migrating solutions to Oracle Exadata’s preconfigured, pre-integrated hardware and software can be completed rapidly, at low cost, without business disruption, and with reduced ongoing operating costs.

Challenges

A word from Omnilogic

“Oracle Exadata is the new killer application—the smartest solution on the market. There is no competition.” – Sorin Dragomir, Chief Operating Officer, Omnilogic SRL

Enable Oracle Partners in Romania and central and eastern Europe to achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status by providing facilities to test and optimize existing applications and build real-life proofs of concept (POCs) for new solutions on Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Demonstrate power of Oracle Exadata’s high-performance, high-capacity engineered systems for customer-facing businesses, such as government organizations, telecommunications, banking and insurance, and utility companies, which typically require continuous availability to support very large data volumes

Capitalize on providing a world-class training and demonstration environment for Oracle Exadata to accelerate sales with Oracle Partners

Solutions

Created a testing environment to enable Oracle Partners and ISVs to test their own solutions and those of their customers on Oracle Exadata running on Oracle Enterprise Linux or Oracle Solaris Express to benchmark performance prior to migration

Leveraged expertise on Oracle Exadata to offer Oracle Exadata training, migration, support seminars and to showcase live demonstrations for Oracle Partners

Proved how Oracle Exadata’s pre-engineered systems, that come assembled, configured, and ready to run, reduce deployment time and cost, minimize risk, and help customers achieve the full performance potential immediately after go live

Achieved performance improvements of between 6 and 100 times faster for financial and utility company applications currently running on IBM, Microsoft, or SAP HANA platforms

Showed how daily closure procedures carried out overnight by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions to analyze each day’s business, can typically be cut from around six hours to 20 minutes, some 18 times faster, when running on Oracle Exadata

Simulated concurrent back-ups while running applications under normal working conditions to prove that Oracle Exadata-based solutions can be backed up during business hours without causing bottlenecks or impacting the end-user experience

Demonstrated that Oracle Exadata’s built-in analytics, data mining and OLTP capabilities make it the highest-performance, lowest-cost choice for large data warehousing operations

Showed how Oracle Exadata’s columnar compression and intelligent storage architecture allows 10 times more data to be stored than on competitor platforms

Demonstrated how Oracle Exadata cuts hardware requirements significantly by consolidating workloads on to fewer servers which delivers greater power efficiency and lower operating costs that competing systems from IBM and other manufacturers

Proved to ISVs that migrating solutions to Oracle Exadata’s preconfigured, pre-integrated hardware and software can be completed rapidly, at low cost, and with minimal business disruption

Demonstrated how storage servers, database servers, and network switches can be added incrementally and inexpensively to the Oracle Exadata platform to support business expansion

On track to grow revenues by 10% in year one and by 15% annually thereafter through increased business generated from Oracle Partners and ISVs

Oracle is pleased to invite you to our new webinar series on "Sparc Marketing and Go-to-Market" intended for our partners.

Please join our second session in a series of new monthly webinars focused on everything related to SPARC and specifically designed to provide insights and selling guidance for channel partners worldwide on Thursday, June 21.

Agenda:

This month's guest speaker will focus on SPARC / T4 Marketing: a review of current assets and where we are going into FY13. Our presenter will be Bud Koch, Sr Principal Product Marketing Director.

Thursday Jun 07, 2012

To improve your marketing experience with Oracle, we are moving all marketing related materials from OMS4P to the Oracle Marketing Kits. Here you will find tools and resources created specifically for Oracle Partners around Database, Middleware, Applications, Server / Storage and Industries. OMS4P will be decommissioned soon so please bookmark this new link.

Wednesday Jun 06, 2012

Please join the World Wide webinar focused on SPARC,
and designed to provide insights and selling guidance, at 5 p.m. CET on Thursday, June 21.

The speaker, Bud Koch, Sr Principal Product Marketing Director will focus on SPARC / T4 Marketing: with a review of
current assets and where we are going into FY13.

Details about the meeting can be found here.
Please plan on joining 10 minutes before the scheduled start time. If
you are not able to participate in real time, a replay will be
available shortly afterward.